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qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
90 vs 65
Hardware Fit
98 vs 99
Quality Score
86 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec86.628.5
First chunk13 ms393 ms
TTFT143 ms393 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage23.9 GB3.2 GB
Memory %37%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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